Family background, cognitive ability, and personality as predictors of educational and occupational attainment
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Biodemography and Social Biology
- Vol. 30 (1) , 86-100
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.1983.9988519
Abstract
The addition of personality measures to measures of family background and of cognitive ability substantially increased prediction of the educational attainment of middle‐aged males and females. The addition of personality measures to measures of family background, cognitive ability, and own educational attainment substantially increased the prediction of the occupational attainment of middle‐aged males. Despite some differences, results generally were similar across sexes and ethnic groups.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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